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Location:

Springtown,TX,USA

Member Since:

Feb 02, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

Firsts:

  • First marathon - White Rock, Dallas, December 2005 (4:01)
  • First BQ - St George, 2007 (3:20)
  • First Boston - 2008 (3:30)
  • 1st Place Clydesdale - Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon - 4/2007
  • 1st Place Ultracentric 6-Hour Champ 2007 - 38.75 miles
  • 1st Time Leading Pace Group, Cowtown '09 (3:39:41)
  • 1st Place Overall, Porcupine Promenade 5K (20:10) - 4/2011
  • 1st Trail Race. Grasslands Half Marathon. 1st Overall Masters (1:53) - 3/2013
  • Leadville LT100 MTB '16 - on a mountain bike, but the toughest challenge, so far!

Marathons Run (27):

  • Dallas White Rock ('05, '07,'09,'14)
  • Chicago ('06, '08)
  • OK City Memorial ('07)
  • St George ('07,'09,'11)
  • Waco Miracle Match ('07)
  • Ft Worth, Cowtown ('08, '09,'10,'11,'12,'13,'15**)
  • Boston ('08 '09*, '10, '13)
  • Park City ('08)
  • San Antonio Rock 'n Roll ('08)
  • Steamboat ('09)
  • Utah Valley ('10)
  • Houston ('12)

  • * - PR

Ultras (3):

  • Ultracentric 6-Hours ('07 - 38.75 mi)
  • El Scorcho 50K, Ft Worth (('08, '09)

PRs:

  • 5K - 19:27 (6/2008)
  • 10K - 41:49 (5/2008)
  • 15K - 1:04:14 (9/2011)
  • Half Marathon - 1:33:12 (1/2011)
  • Marathon - 3:19:47 (Boston 4/2009)
  • 50K - 4:35:53 (7/2008)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Keep injury-free.

2016 Races

Ft Worth Cowtown Half Marathon

Long-Term Running Goals:

Be age-group competitive for many years!

Have fun running!

Make some great friends along the way!

Personal:

Married to the same wonderful woman since March 1988. 3 adorable kids.

Look for me at www.facebook.com (I'll be your friend)

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Asic Nimbus 8 Lifetime Miles: 502.00
VFF Trek Lifetime Miles: 98.10
Kohls Asics Lifetime Miles: 234.74
Asic Trailshoes Lifetime Miles: 82.36
Nike Air Lifetime Miles: 10.00
Saucony Lifetime Miles: 508.16
Brooks Ravena Lifetime Miles: 117.75
Asic (orange) Lifetime Miles: 83.75
Mon, Mar 21, 2011
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
3.002.005.00

First run in 5 days (life got in the way this past weekend, but my garden and yard are looking good!)

AP: 7:44

71F, S15-20, cloudy

Mizuno Alchemy Miles: 5.00
Weight: 195.00
Comments
From Smooth on Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 15:13:17 from 67.2.72.18

NICE! Life is good when garden and yard is good. Your family and neighbors will agree! :)

From timp on Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 15:56:05 from 66.167.50.219

yeah I took off 3 days and I really didn't miss it. I built a bed loft for Sawyer and built shelving for my mother in law. Even did a little heavy lifting to get her moved into her new house. That was fun for once. My achilles didn't really like the deep knee bends when working on the closet...

From Kathie on Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:24:18 from 97.126.209.130

You will enjoy your yard and garden all summer long, good choice!

From Rhett on Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:27:16 from 74.36.33.52

Life tends to do that. I'm sure you got in some good cross training working on the yard and garden.

From MarcE on Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 14:36:07 from 204.16.82.120

Yep...that's my cross training. The boys are really getting into gardening. I built some raised bed boxes for the garden this year, they each have their own box. We caught a tiny garden snake and put him in one of the boxes (and gave him a little garden shovel for shelter).

I'm thinking about running a 5K race this Saturday before our Soccer game.

I still haven't decided on whether to run the Half or Full at Big-D on April 10th...if I don't run at least 18 miles this weekend, it will be the half.

I may be cutting back my miles a little this summer while I try to bring a little more balance to my life. I took some time off from running last year and I came back stronger. I envy all of you who can run 50+ miles week after week after week.

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